Game news “A hit” Call of Duty Black Ops 6 gets off to a titanic start, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen such numbers
Published on 10/28/2024 at 10:30 p.m.
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We knew that CoD BO6 was going to be a hit, like every year. However, this episode hits even harder than we expected.
Explosive!
After various episodes which were widely criticized by the press and by players, the Call of Duty series makes its return thanks to Black Ops 6. With its pretty graphics, its particularly crazy campaign setting, its on-movement, and its numerous online game modes, Bethesda’s FPS is indeed the hit of this end of the year. Featuring the returns of Zombies mode and Theater mode, Black Ops 6 ticks all the boxes to excite fans of the license. In our review of the single-player campaign, we touted it as a great stealth action experience (and then some).
What do you want from a Call of Duty campaign? Shooting technique and sensations worthy of the name? Yes, this has already been achieved for several years. A kind of rollercoaster that swallows you and doesn’t let go until it spits you out? Also. (…) But what do you do with the surprise effect? (…) I had plenty of surprises with the Black Ops 6 solo, and some very good ones at that! Indee, testing the CoD Black Ops 6 campaign
See Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 at Fnac
The game of the moment
Since its release, everything indicates that the Activision/Microsoft game has been an explosive success. Its different editions were immediately passed leading sales of Xbox games. Black Ops 6 is also in the lead of the most played games on PlayStation. In the UK we learn via ispreview that the access provider EE faced “the highest traffic ever recorded for the launch of a video game” on its network with the release of Black Ops 6. “EE saw a 144% increase in Xbox Live traffic on its network compared to the previous week”, lit.
On Steam, the numbers are also huge. Number 1 best-seller, Activision/Microsoft’s FPS is already doing better than Modern Warfare 3 and recording a peak of more than 306,000 players for its first weekend. And all this despite day one availability in Xbox Game Pass console/PC. The steamroller is in motion…
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